Scientific research of intelligence failures: issues and controversy

Mirko Bilandžić () and Tomislav Dokman ()
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Mirko Bilandžić: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Tomislav Dokman: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Croatia

International Studies, 2020, vol. 20, issue 1-2, 137-154

Abstract: Intelligence failures have aroused the interest of the general scientific and professional public for the past eighty years and, according to certain estimates, are the most researched topic in the field of intelligence studies. The basic function of investigating intelligence failures is directed in particular towards improving intelligence activities, ie minimizing these failures as a whole. However, this area is characterized by the unavailability of primary data from the heart of the intelligence institution and direct insight into all phases of the intelligence process, which is controversial in the implementation of objective, impartial and cognitive scientific research. Despite the lack of primary data, scientists and experts in the field of intelligence studies use secondary sources that are the result of institutional investigations conducted by states after the occurrence of an intelligence failure. Therefore, this paper determines whether intelligence failures can be scientifically analysed, or whether these analyses have features of an expert analysis.

Keywords: intelligence studies; intelligence failures; intelligence services; decision-makers; science; science research (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.46672/ms.20.1-2.7

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